iOS 13 Changes how Shortcuts work with asking questions

By peter, 26 September, 2019

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iOS and iPadOS

Under iOS 12 I had created a number of custom shortcuts that asked a question, then a text edit field would pop up in order for me to answer the question.

Now, running these same shortcuts in iOS 13, instead of text edit fields popping up in which I can answer the question, Siri just asks the question and waits for a dictation type audio response. No edit fields pop up.

Is this a bug? What has changed here? Is there a way of recovering the old performance so that I could type my answers?

Thanks.

--Pete

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By Yvonnezed on Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 18:39

This isn't a bug, it's what's called conversational Shortcuts. Basically what this means is that if you run them by asking Siri, this will happen.

If you run them from shortcuts itself, you should get the questions and the text edit box you're expecting.

By peter on Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 18:39

Thanks for the info. I did notice that if I ran the shortcuts from the shortcuts app itself the expected dialogs came up properply. As you said, however, when being activated by voice the shortcuts act entirely differently and don't seem to make use of the screen display or standard dialogs.

Interesting, but I guess it kind of makes sense that if you initiate an action via voice that you would like to continue using voice commands.

--pete

By Chamod on Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 18:39

I am using 6s Plus phone. I am low vision person, Therefore I try to increase font size through setting but font size don’t increase in facebook, YouTube and viber apps

I kindly request please make a solution for it

Thank you